Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a classic that’s been around for ages. It’s a perfect mix of romance, humour, and social commentary.
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Images by Anna Lapwood
Anna Lapwood's 2021 release, stately playing that fills the room. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
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In Too Deep by Lee Child
In Too Deep, co-authored with Andrew Child, finds Reacher waking up amnesiac and handcuffed in Chicago, escaping to probe a mob’s artefact smuggling ring.
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Paddington in Peru
Paddington in Peru (2024), directed by Dougal Wilson, follows Paddington and the Brown family as they travel to Peru to visit Aunt Lucy at the Home for Retired Bears. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, who returns to the country of his birth and discovers a mystery in the jungle.
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The Grand Tour
The Grand Tour is a British motoring programme. It aired on Amazon Prime Video from 18 November 2016 to 13 September 2024. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May present it. The show picked up where their time on Top Gear left off.
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Moon Music by Coldplay
Coldplay's 2024 album, a soft and hopeful companion to their earlier work, reaching for warmth and unity.
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Hymn by Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman's 2018 release, a crossover of pop and the classical voice. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
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The Secret by Lee Child
The Secret, co-authored with Andrew Child, places Reacher on a 1992 task force hunting killers of scientists linked to a bioweapon project from the 1960s.
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No Plan B by Lee Child
No Plan B, co-authored with Andrew Child, witnesses Reacher a 'suicide' that's murder, leading to a prison release scheme and organ harvesting.
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed, a woman overwhelmed by regret, who attempts suicide and finds herself in a magical library between life and death.
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Killing Eve
Killing Eve is a British spy thriller series. It aired on BBC America from 8 April 2018 to 10 April 2022. Phoebe Waller-Bridge developed the first season, based on the novel series Villanelle by Luke Jennings. Sandra Oh plays Eve Polastri, a bored MI5 desk officer who becomes obsessed with tracking a skilled assassin.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022), directed by Simon Curtis, follows the Crawley family as they face two journeys at once. A film crew arrives to shoot a picture at Downton while Violet reveals she has inherited a villa in the south of France from a man no one has heard of.
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Better Off Dead by Lee Child
Better Off Dead, co-authored with Andrew Child, has Reacher searching for a missing twin in a desert town, clashing with a bomber plotting deadly attacks.
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Music of the Spheres by Coldplay
Coldplay's bright 2021 concept album, a glossy pop journey through an imagined solar system, anchored by My Universe.
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Clarkson's Farm
Clarkson's Farm is a British documentary series. It came out on Amazon Prime Video on 11 June 2021. The show follows Jeremy Clarkson, known from car programmes, as he takes over running his 1000-acre farm in the Cotswolds after the old manager retires.
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Dreamchaser by Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman's 2013 release, soaring vocal lines over lush arrangements. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
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Didn't It Rain by Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie's 2013 release, expressive playing rooted in the blues. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
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The Sentinel by Lee Child
Co-authored with Andrew Child, The Sentinel sees Reacher save an IT manager from kidnappers in Tennessee, uncovering a ransomware plot threatening local elections.
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Let Them Talk by Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie's 2011 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
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Blue Moon by Lee Child
Blue Moon pits Reacher against rival Albanian and Ukrainian gangs in a city turf war after he helps an elderly man robbed for loan shark debts.
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Everyday Life by Coldplay
Coldplay's 2019 double album wanders far from arena pop into gospel, protest, and prayer for ordinary days.
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Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey (2019), directed by Michael Engler, continues the story of the Crawley family and their servants as they prepare for a royal visit from King George V and Queen Mary. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham.
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Mezzamorphis by Delirious?
A late discovery of Delirious?'s 1999 album, a bold step from worship band into ambitious British rock.
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The Little Drummer Girl
The Little Drummer Girl is a British-American limited series. It aired on BBC One and AMC from 28 October 2018. Park Chan-wook directed it. The show adapts John le Carré's 1983 novel. Florence Pugh plays Charlie, a young English actress recruited by Israeli intelligence to infiltrate a Palestinian bombing network in the late 1970s.
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Past Tense by Lee Child
Past Tense follows Reacher to his father’s New Hampshire hometown, uncovering family secrets, while two Canadians face a deadly trap in a rural motel.
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